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Jane Toswell explores the misconception of medievalism

English and Writing Studies professor Jane Toswell recently spoke to The Gazette about her book, Medievalism in English Canadian Identity and Literature, which examines how medievalism operates in English Canadian literature.


English professor Alyssa MacLean discusses her work with the Black Londoners Project


English professor Jane Toswell honours father with first donation to Western Libraries' rare books fund


Meet Jaya Sinha, Western's new student writer-in-residence


Dr. Amala Poli successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, Risk(in)g Sleep: A Health Humanities Study of Sleep Paralysis


Led by English & Writing Studies professors Miranda Green-Barteet and Alyssa MacLean, the Black Londoners Project retraces the lives of 16 freedom seekers who helped shape the city’s early landscape


Megan McLennan named McIntosh Colloquium Recipient



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    A conversation about race in early medieval England and our field

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    Graduate Development Workshop: Humanities Skills Transfer

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    We Were Here - The Untold History of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe

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